Safety and short-term outcomes of robotic-assisted transabdominal preperitoneal repair for inguinal hernia in pioneering hospitals in Japan: A nationwide retrospective cohort study

Nobuhiko Okamoto 1, Takeyuki Misawa 2, Gen Shimada 3, Takuya Saito 4, Shuji Takiguchi 5, Kiyotaka Imamura 6, Masakazu Ohuchi 7, Tsukasa Tanida 8, Ikuo Watanobe 9, Tsutomu Fujii 10, Ichiro Takemasa 11, Fumitoshi Mizutani 12, Taketo Matsubara 3, Shunsuke Hayakawa 5, Toru Watanabe 10, Koichi Okuya 11, Hideki Takahashi 2, Masahiro Horikawa 2, Go Wakabayashi 1